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Stone-deaf   Listen
adjective
Stone-deaf  adj.  As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stone-deaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... farce called "Mr. Nightingale's Diary." Whoever witnessed Dickens's impersonation of Mr. Gabblewig, will remember that it included a whole cluster of grotesque creations of his own. Among these there was a stone-deaf old man, who, whenever he was shouted at, used to sigh out resignedly, "Ah, it's no use your whispering!" Besides whom there was a garrulous old lady, in herself the worthy double of Mrs. Gamp; a sort of half-brother to Sam Weller; and an alternately shrieking and ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent



Words linked to "Stone-deaf" :   deaf as a post, profoundly deaf



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